It’s only one factor. The bigger factor is that our police are insanely militarized. If my black ass tried to barbecue at a protest, I’d get gunned the fuck down, then I’d be unnamed in the news stories (if there were any), and the cop would get a medal for killing a “terrorist”.
That’s more like it. Americans (just like Russians) like to automatically dismiss all the critique and calls to action with this knee-jerk “country big” reaction, and since you can’t actually do anything with a country being big, it’s a bit of a thought terminating cliché. Meanwhile, the size of a country rarely has anything to do with anything
It’s only one factor. The bigger factor is that our police are insanely militarized. If my black ass tried to barbecue at a protest, I’d get gunned the fuck down, then I’d be unnamed in the news stories (if there were any), and the cop would get a medal for killing a “terrorist”.
That’s more like it. Americans (just like Russians) like to automatically dismiss all the critique and calls to action with this knee-jerk “country big” reaction, and since you can’t actually do anything with a country being big, it’s a bit of a thought terminating cliché. Meanwhile, the size of a country rarely has anything to do with anything